A wild night all around

Pretty safe bet tonight’s game can’t be as crazy as last night’s. Then again, every time you think that’s the case, something wild happens and you’re left shaking your head.

We need to snap out of this funk. A six-game losing streak is never fun, especially coming out of the break. But as we’ve all seen, this team can streak with the best of them and has an ability to come back when everyone least expects it. Here’s hoping Billingsley and the Boys are up to the task tonight.

Normally I’d be a little hesitant in signing on at this point in a game, but considering the garbage heap of games we’ve suffered through lately, perhaps I can be a late-inning good luck charm tonight.

LOL Beav, JoJo would have over mangaged and probably pulled him!!!! Billz was pitching tonight, not just throwing..
Good sign. He doesn’t have to overpower, just locate and trust your stuff. Maddux will make the Hall of Fame with less than Billz stuff, because he was smart.

Billingsley has pitched a fantastic game so far. I hope we can get the last 6 outs without blowing this one. Bills really deserves to win. I don’t know who would close this one? I would suspect both Broxton and Kuo are unavailable. Weaver, maybe. Taschner……… YIKES!!!

Now I’ve got to ask the question… If Joe was managing tonight and not Mattingly, is there any doubt that Billz wouldn’t have been allowed to go the distance? How many times have we seen a guy throw a shutout for 7-8 innings only to never get a chance to finish it because Joe’s an idiot? Not saying it will, but these are the kind of games that could help Billz turn the corner. Could help Kersh too next time he gets close.

Let’s see we swept the Cards and they swept us back. The Mets were a good team when we seen them without Beltran and swept us and I don’t mind us taking 3 of 4 from them and I hope the Mets don’t get swept but the dback.

I think Torre would have let him go out there in the ninth, but Kuo would have come in if anyone got on. That’s his MO. And Donny probably would have done the same. Why? Because I’m betting that Schaffer spent the night with a Bluetooth device in his ear.

I am not sure where I was reading, but I had also read something about Kelly Jansen. They were also talking about the other guy you’ve been watching…………Kyle Russell. It must have been a Bleacher Report or something of that sort. Oh, I know what it was………………….something about untouchables in our minor system I believe. It had to do with trading and who we were not willing to give up for the right price so to speak.

Those are the Rawlings S100’s, Eric. The new helmets designed to take a 100mph fastball and still keep one’s brains in place. MLB made them mandatory for all minor leaguers before the start of this season.

Although, they have the outside chance of making the wearer shrink, turn a greenish hue, and have mental excursions to the Stone Age, where they have the sudden urge to call everyone a “dum dum”.

Shockingly this year, they had just about every All-Star in the helmets during the All-Star Game, though they were a slimmed-down version. The brims are a lot shorter on the ones the big-leaguers wear, the ones who are brave enough to put safety first, anyway, like Justin Morneau and sometimes David Wright.

That wouldn’t been dumb if Kuo got into this game and got lit up and I wonder why Kuo can’t pitch back to back game but he does have 2 games already stretching 2 innings out of him? Maybe he can pitch in back to back game if his PC is low. I always wonder if Kuo had just thrown 4 pitches to 3 batters would he come back out the next day.

Do you ever get the feeling that they purposely cause submission error issues? This is just absolutely ridiculous!!

Anyhow, before I was brought back into submission hell for the upteenth time tonight……………

Shad – I read that Kuo takes hours to get ready for a game. So, I am assuming his regimend has something to do with when he does and doesn’t pitch. I know it’s not right, and I agree with enchanted. We should have a bullpen pitcher that can go back to back games, but with his injury record, I am sure that is behind his workout regimend to keep him as healthy as possible.

Dodgereric – interesting about Kyle, but I am sure he will figure things out. I am looking forward to seeing him up to the big club some day, along with Dee Gordon. A 6’5″ catcher? I am guessing that is a Brian McCann type then. That can bring some excitement someday too.

Northstateblues – thanks for the explaination. Now, if they can just figure out the wood bat issue. That broken bat that came at Billz in two parts was a little frightening. My son uses a composite bat that is supposedly unbreakable. So far it hasn’t unlike others that he has used.

Not long ago this current group of youngsters reminded me of the Dodgers of 1973 led by Garvey, Lopes, Russell and Cey (as well as Yeager who is often forgotten) who went on to appear in 4 World Series culminating in the ’81 World Championship.
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Now, the situation is reminding me a lot more of the Dodgers of the mid-’90s led by youngsters Piazza, Karros and Mondesi who went on to be destroyed by Fox.
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The main difference I see at this point is that Fox destroyed the team in a single devastating blow — you all know what I’m talking about — whereas under the McCourt fiasco, the future that shone so incredibly bright has been dimmed gradually over the last three years.
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It’s becoming increasingly difficult to see how this current core will ever go to and win a World Series. We no longer have the minor league resources to fill the gaps, and McCourt never had the money to get the necessary free agents.

KURODA has now pitched through the 7th inning for the 8th time this year.
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Dodgertown, Brooklyn where it hasn’t rained through 857 1/2 straight games, …that’s not Brooklyn. LOL
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Does KEMP think he’s Casey tonight?

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